For the last two weeks Karen, our Auto Enrolment Administrator, has been busy setting up workplace pension schemes with The People’s Pension. This has been the most popular pension scheme with our client employers and several of them decided to have it set up before the new charges came into place today. Since the announcement […]
Archives for November 2015
Carrier Bag Charges – compulsory or voluntary?
On 5 October 2015 a compulsory charge was introduced for single-use carrier bags. This charge is only compulsory to businesses with 250 or more full time equivalent employees however smaller businesses can introduce this charge voluntarily. Whilst larger businesses will have to keep records of carrier bag use, smaller businesses do not have to. […]
Pension Auto Enrolment is now costing employers even more
We have been talking to our employer clients about pension auto-enrolment for some time now and presenting them with fact sheets about the three schemes which would not cost them anything to set up. NEST, NOW Pensions and The People’s Pension were all schemes that would take small employers with less than 50 employees. […]
Pension Auto Enrolment is now costing employers even more
We have been talking to our employer clients about pension auto-enrolment for some time now and presenting them with fact sheets about the three schemes which would not cost them anything to set up. NEST, NOW Pensions and The People’s Pension were all schemes that would take small employers with less than 50 employees. […]
What is the difference between a bookkeeper and an accountant?
Both an accountant and a bookkeeper have valuable roles to play in your business and generally you need both and not one or the other. A very simple explanation of their roles is that a bookkeeper will record the day to day financial transactions of your business, whilst an accountant will use the information a […]